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New England is getting a hard glancing blow from a huge winter storm that has generated hurricane-force winds and such adjectives as “mind-blowing” and “monster” from normally mild-mannered meteorologists.

President Obama declared Wednesday that while the U.S. and European union stand united, “Russia stands alone” on the world stage because of its actions.

A BP refinery spilled an unknown amount of oil into Lake Michigan on Monday.

Facebook announced a pretty big purchase on Tuesday: The social media giant said it was acquiring Oculus VR, a company that makes virtual reality goggles, for $2 billion.

In a new rule released on Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service says it will treat bitcoin and other virtual currencies as property.

Weary searchers resumed their dangerous work Wednesday near Oso, Wash., where it’s thought at least 24 people — and possibly many more — died when a massive mudslide buried dozens of homes and businesses on Saturday.

As the Coast Guard prepares to open the Houston Ship Channel after an oil spill over the weekend, environmentalists were trying assess the damage to a sensitive ecological system.

Hoping it will be “a dignified and reverential setting,” the soon-to-be-opened National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City says approximately 8,000 unidentified remains of those who died in the 2001 terrorist attacks in Manhattan are returning “to the sacred ground of the World Trade Center site.”

Russia’s 20 years of having a seat at the table when leaders of the world’s most powerful industrialized nations meet came to at least a temporary end.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says he’s concerned about a massing of Russian troops along the eastern border with Ukraine, saying that the alliance was focused on “effective deterrence and defense.”